Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the loudest and most charismatic victors, but are silent about the true movers and shakers: the rebels, the honest servants, the quiet doers, the square pegs in a round hole, and the ordinary believers who kept showing up. Through seven moving tales of courage, prolific Malaysian writer, James Chai, shows us in his debut book how a frail 70-year-old woman became the face of Malaysia’s largest protest that helped overturn the longest-ruling regime in the world; a mother-of-two fought through gender and racial unfairness and became the first Asian woman to win the ‘Nobel Prize for Cancer Research’; and more. This will force us to reassess what is truly important and remind us of what we are capable of.